Drafers - Comments

Again if you see yourself as being reasonable then why would you need to dramatize things? The only thing I wanted to do was remove my posts and comments without bothering anyone. Yes I could have notified you of this beforehand, but I didn't think of it as being any problem as it contained nothing of value and I never agreed upon the rule that someone shouldn't be allowed to delete their own content.

After only deleting a few hundred comments you already called me out publicly before even getting an answer. I never said that I didn't need to justify myself, I asked why I would need to do so as the fact that I provided you thousands of hours of free work should be more than enough to not make any problem out of it. Even after I explained that I didn't want to bother anyone and would keep all the relevant data update stuff up, you still completely removed the option to delete anything and then dumped something like 6 paragraphs onto me. I couldn't read that as anything other than you wanting to keep everything online against my will, which objectively is a nasty thing to do. After that I deleted the data update stuff as well, because if you're acting like that then you can calmly analyse it wouldn't be fair for you to personally keep benefiting from those either.

The files contained like 3 or 4 requests in total, so it would literally have taken you less than 5 minutes to recreate them and then you could have just left it at that. Anything else in the files was researched by myself and wouldn't even been on here if it wasn't for me creating them. So pretending that I've ‘rendered a collaborative project temporarily unusable' and ‘made everyone else's contributions temporarily worthless' is bullshit and you know that perfectly well. Even if those files were so absolutely crucial to the functioning of the update, then anyone who downloaded a single version from before the end of June (which was 99,9% of people) would already have them on their PC and everything would work fine.

The same goes for the comments where you act like I've forced you to spend hours checking logs, when you knew at any time that there was nothing of value I could possibly have deleted (value meaning a direct need for a group of people, not the weakest ever possibility of someone scrolling through threads to actively look for comments that are more than 6 months or even years old). It's much more likely you just took off your own frustration about not having control over your own website, losing one of your most valuable members, losing potential revenue and then dedicated yourself to spending hours on checking and restoring every possible thing I've ever posted on here (which in itself you can calmly analyse as being creepy behavior), while at the same time deleting comments of people saying my wishes should be respected.

If you just focused on stuff you could argue to be crucial then that would have looked better, but instead you're actively going miles to put posts back online that had already been deleted for like 6 months without anyone caring. These serve literally no other purpose than to add traffic, and if that's worth more to you than someone else's discomfort then that should tell everyone enough.

All up to you how you want to run a website, but then from now on stop being confused about the fact you find it so hard to get people to help you out with things. If have no problems with financially benefiting from thousands of hours of free work from others and then flip out like this when they cause you the slightest inconvenience, then the problem might be on your side, and that won't be fixed by throwing fake appreciation onto people. 

Please state clearly now because these are just basic privacy issues:

• When will you add the site policy to the registration process? Right now it’s hidden between an overload of clickable buttons and text, so if you say most people know how to read it beforehand then please show how many times that page is visited in relation to the amount of registered accounts. Actively informing people of your policy and letting them agree with it before registering is one of the most basic aspects of creating a user-friendly website, so if you didn’t think of this yourself in 20 years’ time that would be pretty concerning.

• Has the anonymisation of email addresses has been fixed now and did this also affect normal users? How long has this not been working for?

• Is there any reason not to make the email field invisible for all staff members immediately? Right now you give people you've only ever shared one or two messages with access to over 2 million email addresses, when this can only turn out in a bad way.

• Will all the hotlinks I showed be removed or not? If not, what’s the point of removing a username from a comment if in a quote comment directly below it’s still visible? The same goes for the graphic pages where if someone has commented you can still easily click through to their profile and comment history.

You also restored all of my content that I deleted from up until a year ago and then framed that as: 'We've been working hard to clean up the mess 🙂', even though I made clear to you that I'm creeped out by the people on here and want to have everything deleted?

I never agreed upon the ‘rule' that nothing on this site can ever be deleted, as you've decided not to inform people of that. Why after 20 years is there still no site policy in place that people have to agree/disagree upon before registering an account and providing their data?

Nobody has any interest in my content that weighs up against the fact that ‘one of the best mods we've ever had' wants to have it removed. I haven't deleted anything that anyone else has spent even 1 second of time on. I provided you with 2,000+ hours of free work and improvements that the site will keep benefiting from for years, now the only thing I ask in return is that you delete my content.

I hope you mean the ‘edit' button is only visible on deleted staff accounts, not for deleted normal users? When someone deletes their account their name is only deleted from their comments, there will continue to be hotlinks to their profile all over the site which gives easy access to comment history etc. 

Can a mod check this profile for example to see if the email adress is still visible when you click on ‘edit'?

https://sortitoutsi.net/user/profile/1322587

More hotlinks that stay in place after deletion, which make all comments very easy to trace back to a single person and denies the whole point of removing their name

Please fix whatever issue is causing email addresses not to be anonymized. After changing my email and deleting my account I'm continuing to receive mail from staff members, indicating that the 80+ people on staff still have easy access to the data belonging to people that have actively requested to delete their account